Amanda

I've always thought this was REALLY odd. You set down your glasses, someone else happens by, and they think nothing of picking them up to look through them. Why? It just seems like such a silly thing to do. I realize there's really no harm (unless the drop them of course), but it just sort of bugs me sometimes because it's my property and they're playing with them.

I have to reload questions dozens of times before it'll even give me the option to answer them. Half the time the site just freezes up anyway, or I get messages like "No data sent". When I go to ask questions I'll click the post button and... nothing. Maybe the question posted, maybe it didn't. It's just dumb luck.

Sigh... So my husband and my best friend's husband are in a p*ssing contest over seating. My husband has "his spot" at our table, which he considers the head of the table. When my friend visits with her husband her husband will always go and sit there, which infuriates my husband. He thinks our guests should sit between us, with me at one end of the table and him at the other.

What is the proper procedure, and please tell me it involves making both of them eat in the other room, lol.

So two years ago I began renting out a loft above my garage as an efficiency to an older man. He has always been a good tenant, and I was sad when he told me a month ago that this would be his last month with me. Yesterday he asked me to go through the place with him as a check off on the issue of his security deposit. Sure enough everything's in prime condition, so I told him I'd give him his original deposit back when he surrendered the keys. But he became upset because he claims that I also owe him interest on the deposit. I've never heard of such a thing. He says that in every place he's lived the landlord would put the deposit in a savings account, and then give him back everything it's collected.

He says this is the law in New York, but I can find no mention of it. But when I asked around to a few of my friends who rent they seemed to agree with him. Is this something I'm honestly entitled to pay him?

I have no idea how this came to be (as the fence was constructed about five years before I purchased my home), but my neighbor's fence is five feet into my property line. My husband and I wish to tear it down because we want our property back. Plus it's ugly because no one's ever maintained it. We went to our neighbor to tell them that we were ripping it out, and to informed them that we'd be putting up a new one along the correct property line. We were trying to be polite by asking them what color they wanted their side of the fence to be. My neighbor insists that we cannot touch the fence because it's his, and that because it was there before we moved in that it's somehow "grandfathered" in.

On Monday we plan to go to the town board about this. But in the mean time I'm wondering who this fence actually belongs to. By the way I have no way of contacting the ex owners to even ask about if they gave them permission to put the fence so far into their land.

I went to my boyfriend's Aunt and Uncle's home for dinner the other night. My boyfriend knows that I absolutely cannot stand eating seafood. Fish disgusts me terribly. Maybe it was my mistake to assume he'd relay this to his family when he set up dinner arrangements, because wouldn't you know it they set out salmon. Rather than make a fuss I just dug into the side dishes, but his Aunt noticed I wasn't touching the main course. She told me I had to try to fish, and went to put some of it on my plate. I declined and told her that I actually wasn't fond of fish. This upset her. She said it wasn't polite to dismiss it without at least having a bite. Rather than argue I took a bite, and as expected I hated it, and commented that it just wasn't anything I was into. This upset her even more, and led to a very miserable evening where she basically didn't speak to me.

Was I rude or wrong? Should I have eaten it anyway, even though the taste would have made me sick?

I think we've all dealt with this. You're having a conversation with a group, and someone considers their opinion so pressing that they begin talking while you're talking, effectively cutting you off. Some people do it by accident, or they just want to make a point about what you're saying. But obviously there are also those people who do this all the time.

My question to all of you is this, if someone begins talking over you how do you react? Do you just stop talking? Do you continue talking at the same volume. Do you raise your voice? Do you scold them for cutting you off? You tell me.